Principles of parent education
- 1. PRINCIPLES OF PARENT EDUCATION
- 2. PARENT EDUCATION and suppor t are essent ial components of chi ld wel fare services which take di fferent forms for di fferent parents and vary depending upon the parents needs. The overarching goal of al l parent educat ion is to ensure the safety and wel lbeing of the chi ld.
- 3. 1. All parent education programs must recognize and build on parent’s understanding of safety and risk related factors: All forms of parent education must incorporate the identification and recognition of caregiver behaviors, beliefs, values, and attitudes that positively shape and ensure the safety, healthy development, and stability of their children.
- 4. 2. Every parent and family is unique: Every family has its own customs and values and therefore the educators must tell the needs of parents accordingly.
- 5. 3. Parent education programs must recognize and build on parent’s strengths: All the parent education must be based on parent’s strength. The educators must identify the strength of individual parents and shape them in a right way so that the parents feel connected and supported.
- 6. 4. All forms of parent education and the people who deliver them must be culturally competent, taking into account race, culture, gender and other identities: The educators must provide linguistic appropriate services so that the parents feel easy to understand also. The educators must focus on the cultural background gender and other basic identities.
- 7. 5. Parent education programs must recognize that parents have different needs: The educators must be focus on cater different needs of different parents.
- 8. 6.Parent education programs must build on parent’s common experience: In this the common experiences of other parents creates more impact because words of mouth plays a very important role in changing the mindset of people.
- 9. 8.When the education occurs in a group format, parent educators must be trained in principles of group work and facilitation: When the educators teach in group they must know the principles of group work so that there is no hustle while dealing in a group.
- 10. 7. Parent education programs must utilize defined models and promising practices and maintain clear objectives: The educators must be very clear and specific about their objective and these objectives should be based flexible enough to suit the target audience/parents.
- 11. 9. parents must be involved in the development, facilitation and leadership of parent education programs: Parents should be equally involved in upliftment of parents education program, so that it fastens the speed of the process.
- 12. 10. All parent education and support programs must be grounded in guiding parents to be self-reflective about how they are raising their children and how they can improve their parenting skills: These parent education must act like a guiding force for the parents so that they know how they are upbringing their kids and how they are enhancing their own skills for handling their own kids.